Lily White

COMPANIES HAVE always had to answer to their investors. But these days shareholders have new questions—lots of them. On April 28th shareholders in three big drug companies, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Moderna and Pfizer, are set to vote on resolutions filed by Oxfam, a charity, that seek to widen access to covid-19 vaccines. In May…

This M&A boom isn’t like the last oneIT WAS ONCE thought that investment bankers, like sharks, needed to keep on the move to survive. Then pandemic lockdowns put paid to their perpetual motion between headquarters, airports and meetings. Greasing the wheels of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) took a backseat to corporate concerns about survival. Deals…

But activists’ interest has little immediate impact on salesANDRIJ MELNYK, the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin, did not hold back. Mocking Ritter Sport’s advertising slogan, he tweeted on March 29th “Quadratisch, Praktisch, Blut” (square, practical, blood), replacing gut (good) in the firm’s slogan. A couple of days later Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, called for a…

The debate turns to escrow accounts and secondary sanctionsPRESIDENT JOE BIDEN has promised to “ratchet up the pain” for Vladimir Putin over Russian atrocities in Ukraine. The EU vows wave after wave of “rolling sanctions”. Momentum is growing in the West to fire the two big economic weapons that have so far been kept largely…

Every week, MobileSyrup outlines some of the most notable movies and TV shows that recently hit Canadian streaming platforms. Our ‘Streaming in Canada’ column…

Developers are given 30 days to submit an update, despite their game being in a completed stat Indie developers have begun receiving…

Addressing player concerns, Ubisoft claims the game has “no NFT features” Ubisoft officially confirms the development of its team-based battle arena game…

Apple is launching its new repair program for the Apple Watch Series 6. This comes as a way to service those experiencing…

Shocking no one, the Google Pixel watch will be named the ‘Pixel Watch’ Google has filed a trademark with the United States…

CBC has revealed the full list of movies and shows hitting its CBC Gem streaming service in May. But before we get…